Liberals to speed up infrastructure project approvals as millions left unspent

The federal government left more than $616 million in infrastructure money on the table at the end of fiscal 2014-15, with the department in question warning that it almost never spends everything it can in a given year.

Most of those dollars — about $290 million — were destined for projects like waste water treatment facilities, transit, national highways and green energy programs that met “national priorities” to help grow the Canadian economy and creating a cleaner environment.

In all, the federal government spent nearly $3.1 billion on infrastructure in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2015.